Cross Connections

It’s rare that one country has such interesting little bits of news around the same time. But here’s from Old Blighty. A British billionai...

The caption in TOI says: CARD-CARRYING INDIAN: M F Husain , who has recently taken Qatari citizenship and has had to surrender his Indian ...

It is a sick idea for hordes of Australians to tuck into chicken tikka to express solidarity with the 30 victims of racial attacks that hav...

The nation’s highest civilian honours are announced on Republic Day, and as always there is cause for heartburn for those left out and amuse...

This Aman ki Asha surely won’t be a free lunch. We are still talking about peace this and peace that in a bubble gum manner. It’s getting t...

Maverick: Global Bubble of the Revivalist by Farzana Versey Covert, December 15-30 Those who left have it good. While Prime Minister Manmoha...

I am so glad our Nobel laureate has said what he has. “All sorts of people from India have been writing to me, clogging up my email box. It ...

Designer Anand Jon has been sentenced to 59 years in prison by a California court for sex crimes. He kept a conquest diary. He recorded in d...

It has been over 15 hours. Over 100 killed. Over 225 injured. 11 places attacked. Terrorists are still holed up inside some of these places....

Got this in the mail :) Diwali through the eyes of NRI kids A young second generation Indian in the US was asked by his mother to explain th...

It’s been days. She has been done, done, done. I am sitting in India and only know that those NRIs must be wondering what wrong did our...

Maverick : The Trend Settlers by Farzana Versey The Asian Age, Op-ed, Jan. 1, 2008 Her lashes fluttering like a fan, she asked, “Is it ...

Eklavya is the Indian entry to the Oscars. I don’t care much about the Academy Awards, at least whether we figure in it or not. But I am re...

...and see what you get for opposing the nuclear deal Last night on CNN-IBN, just to be a bit different, they decided to ask viewers whether...